The developer promises more details “soon,” but the teaser image provides a few hints. It features the silhouettes of Zoe, Auri and Saya, coincidentally the three most popular characters from a recent poll. Perhaps the update allows recruiting the latter two, who were introduced in 1.0 and the Sakurajima update as Tower Bosses.

That doesn’t quite answer why Zoe is standing side by side with them, however. But assuming they’re recruitable, can players also bring their respective Pals along as units? Time will certainly tell.

Of course, Pocketpair likely has even more planned with this major update, so stay tuned. All we know is that players shouldn’t expect No Man’s Sky-level support or simple additions like ten more levels to grind out.

Palworld is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC, and Xbox One. Check out our review of 1.0 here, which we praised for its addictive gameplay loop and new features (including the 72 new Pals).

The new missions are definitely a highlight of the announcement, and “Beyond Dimensions” and “Far Side of the Moon” sound like interesting additions, especially to the storyline involving the World Tree from the game’s 1.0 release.

Otherwise, notable improvements include adjustments to the behavior of Pals and Base Pals, battles, and fishing difficulty, along with changes to both inventory management and base building that should make life easier as you continue to leave your mark on the world. One of the most welcome changes is that cancelling construction projects now refunds the materials you spent, which should help those who can’t decide on the optimal layout of your base or want to try different things at once.

The update should keep players coming back for more in a title that’s already proven to be quite addictive. We dove into why in our review, and we hope this one continues entertaining us for a good long while.

As for the future, Pocketpair is working on Update 1.1, and while it’s looking to address player feedback, you probably shouldn’t expect any massive overhauls. On the flipside, it won’t take long to release either.

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Head of publishing and communications John Buckley responded to the tweet, noting that it’s “time to get back to the grind.” He invited suggestions, and the results were about what you would expect, topping 2,000 replies. “Shot myself in the foot here,” he noted in a follow-up, “but things like ‘add a new continent’, ‘add 20 more levels’ and similarly massive undertakings are not really what we want to do with v1.1.”

Buckley noted that the team is “open to ideas” but “we’re not planning to spend a year making a massive update for 1.1.” This is pretty much in line with earlier statements about not wanting to follow No Man’s Sky when discussing long-term support. In the same vein, he noted that you can only add “five more levels” or “10 levels” so many times before it’s a “massive bloat point.”

Support for Palworld will eventually end, and the team will look to what comes after. For now, it’s a pretty compelling experience, especially with 1.0 adding new Pals, a brand-new region, late-game armor and weapons, new structures, and revamping the open world with new points of interest and other additions. It’s available for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, and PC – check out our review for more details.

In a turn of events that shouldn’t be surprising to anyone paying attention to the games industry, Fortnite has taken the number one spot across PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. On the PlayStation side of things, the top 5 aside from Fortnite include NBA 2K26, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Roblox, and Grand Theft Auto 5 Remastered. Xbox, on the other hand, features Roblox, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto 5 Remastered, and Minecraft in its top 5.

“Each list had exactly one new game reach the top 20. The rest were mostly long-running live service or annualized sports titles,” acknowledged Piscatella. “This is just the PS/XBX market right now.” In another post, he noted that the current market leads to “thousands of other games that come out every year fighting for the attention of a relatively small enthusiast portion of the total player base.”

As we get deeper in both lists, we continue to see the trend of older live-service titles, like Apex Legends and Rocket League. There are a few exceptions to be seen, however. Palworld’s recent 1.0 release likely played a large role in letting it breach the top 20 list, for instance. Similarly, on Xbox, Destiny 2 has managed to climb up to number 19. Curiously, the Xbox list also included Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, which is entirely missing from the PS5 side. Shift at Midnight’s absence from PlayStation’s list, on the other hand, is more understandable due to it simply not getting released on the platform.

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls‘ presence on the PS5 list also represents an interesting data point, since the game hasn’t yet been released, and was only available for a single weekend.

It looks like Steam is the only one of the three platforms to offer a more diverse list of the most-played games. Palworld currently sits at the top of the list, followed by Counter-Strike 2, Battlefield 6, Slay the Spire 2, and Marvel Rivals rounding up the top 5. Further in, we also get to see titles like the indie hit Meccha Chameleon before more live-service games like Helldivers 2, Destiny 2, and Rocket League come in. The presence of Valve’s Deadlock is also noteworthy, since it is still an invite-only game that hasn’t yet been officially released to the public.

Seeing lists like this that are broadly dominated by live-service games goes a long way in explaining the reasoning behind companies chasing similar trends, even if they happen to fail. We last saw this with Sony’s push towards live-service games, which ultimately culminated in a lack of new game releases, the cancelation of several projects, and even some studios being shuttered.

"Surely expanding the list to 20 would show plenty of new games"Well. Sure. Each list had exactly one new game reach the top 20. The rest were mostly long running live service or annualized sports titles.This is just the PS/XBX market right now.

— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 2026-08-03T15:44:17.812Z

Circana Player Engagement Tracker – US Top 10 Titles by Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) – W/E Jul 25, 2026- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls debuted 17th on PlayStation- Shift at Midnight ranked 17th on Xbox in launch week- Path of Exile jumped to 19th on Steam from 119th a week ago

— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 2026-08-03T14:30:28.614Z

This Palworld 1.0 guide is a complete listing of all the new Pals, sorted by Paldeck number, followed by a separate section dedicated to variants, also sorted by Paldeck number.

All New Pals In Palworld 1.0

All New Pal Variants In Palworld 1.0

Those are all 49 base and 25 variant new Pals to be discovered and captured in Palworld 1.0.

While the developer hasn’t officially confirmed this, Alinea Analytics estimates $700 million in revenue from 30.5 million sales, with Steam apparently making up 85 percent. And since it exited early access, Palworld has allegedly reached almost 1.5 million sales on the platform, with 300,000 on PS5 and 70,000 on Xbox and Xbox Series X/S.

Its concurrent player peak on Steam almost recently hit one million – an impressive milestone, for sure. However, across all platforms, Palworld reportedly averaged 3.7 million this past weekend. Other notable figures include a reported 5.2 million players on Steam, about 20 percent of the total player base, already having more than 100 hours. Meanwhile, about 200,000 (0.7 percent) have apparently crossed 500 hours.

Though Palworld is a massive hit and Pocketpair is interested in post-launch support, it won’t be as straightforward as simply adding new resources and increasing the level cap. Time will tell, so stay tuned for updates, and check out our review, where we scored it a 9 out of 10.

This Palworld 1.0 guide is a complete listing of all 13 new weapons sorted by the Technology Level required to unlock them, their Attack values, and the crafting materials required to produce both them as well as additional holsters.

All New Weapons In Palworld 1.0

How To Unlock More Weapon Holsters

With so many great new weapons to choose from, you would be hard-pressed to reduce them to just the four that you can normally carry. However, the 1.0 update allows for two Extra Weapon Holsters to be unlocked and crafted individually.

Simply hold them in your inventory in order to be able to carry two additional weapons, for a total of six.

Extra Weapon Holster

Technology Level 27

• 30x Fiber
• 20x Leather
• 20x Wooden Board

Extra Weapon Holster 2

Technology Level 54

• 20x Carbon Fiber
• 100x Fiber
• 40x Leather
• 40x High Quality Wooden Board

Those are all 13 new weapons to be unlocked from the Technology Tree in Palworld 1.0, as well as how to unlock two additional weapon holsters to carry them.

This guide for Palworld 1.0 is all about the intricacies of the Mutation breeding mechanic introduced with the update, and how to boost your odds for success.

Mutated Eggs

As mentioned earlier, Mutated Eggs always hatch into the Alpha variant of their Pal. Naturally, the randomness has now been shifted to the rarity of even spawning said Mutated Egg when breeding any two Pals.

Still, there are some things you can do in order to tip the scales in your favor.

Boosting RNG For Mutated Eggs

While there is no guarantee that a Mutated Egg will spawn in the first place, your chances can be improved to a small degree through the use of various Cakes.

Cake

~1% Mutated Egg spawn chance.

• 5x Flour
• 8x Egg
• 2x Honey
• 7x Milk
• 8x Red Berries

Mushroom Cake

Improves the chances of a newborn Pal having better stats.

• 5x Flour
• 3x Cavern Mushroom
• 8x Egg
• 2x Honey
• 5x Mushroom

Vegetable Cake

A technically 2% Mutated Egg spawn chance due to spawning two Pal Eggs simultaneously.

• 8x Flour
• 8x Egg
• 4x Honey
• 7x Lettuce
• 8x Tomato

Extravagant Vegetable Cake

Epic Food with a ~3% Mutated Egg spawn chance, and better stats.

• 12x Flour
• 8x Carrot
• 8x Cotton Candy
• 6x Onion
• 10x Potato

Special Cake

A monstrously expensive cake to bake, but allows for the inheritance of more parent Pal passives, as many as six.

• 20x Flour
• 8x Caramel Cotton Candy
• 15x Egg
• 2x Mammorest Meat
• 15x Milk

Lastly, the Ancient Hatchery in combination with the Philanthropist and/or Babysitter Passives can produce and hatch dozens of Eggs quickly enough that you can focus on boosting the skill spawn chances instead.

Mutated Pals

As for what to expect once a Mutated Egg hatches, aside from that guaranteed Alpha status, their base stats are in the 90-100 IV range by default.

Same-species breeding can now produce a completely different species of hatchling. Even the old formulas for which combination of two species would predictably produce a target species are completely ignored when dealing with Mutated Eggs.

Condensation starts at two stars, sparing you the seemingly endless loop of combining Pals.

A single Active Skill for that particular species will be at a high tier.

Finally, a selection of five new unique Rainbow Passives are initially exclusive to Pals from Mutated Eggs, only one of which will be randomly applied at a time, unless a Special Cake was used to boost the overall Passive Skill count to six potential slots.

At least two other non-exclusive Rainbow Passives will also be applied.

Babysitter

A boosted breeding Passive that speeds up Egg-laying and hatching at Breeding Farms.

Heavily Armored

Total immunity to explosive damage.

Idiosyncratic

Concurrent health regeneration for both the Pal and you, boosted Defense, and total immunity to the status effects of poison and fire damage.

Immortal

Rapid health regeneration exclusively for the Pal, Life Steal, and a boosted Attack.

Skymarcher

Additional jumps for mounts.

That is everything there is to know about the new Mutation mechanic, and how to raise the spawn chance for Mutated Eggs in Palworld 1.0.

This Palworld 1.0 guide is all about farming Soralite and Paloxite as quickly and efficiently as possible. Crafting the Technology Level 54 Plasma Multicutter is required in order to mine all endgame crafting materials.

Where And How To Farm Soralite Ore

The blue-hued Soralite rock nodes are located on the new Sunreach Islands exclusively, and will naturally require some way to fly in order to access it.

An excellent Soralite farming location with five nodes in close proximity, is at -300,-1400, east of the Farcry Marsh fast travel point. 

Mining Soralite effectively requires aiming the beam of the Multicutter directly at the brightly glowing spot on the node for maximum damage.

Alternatively, engage in combat with specific Pals in the locality, such as the crystalline Pierdon Cryst, and gather their Soralite drops.

Ideally though, it would be best to set up a forward base with a Soralite Quarry where Mining Pals can automate much of the tedium. This will require an Ancient Technology Level of 72 to unlock, and a starting pool of 100 Soralite at least, in order to construct.

Where And How To Farm Paloxite Ore

Paloxite is an even rarer ore, and is only to be discovered in the World Tree. Its nodes appear to dematerialize as you approach, and therefore require some strategy in order to mine them successfully.

After you interact with the Altar and initially spawn at the World Tree, ascend the stairs and take a moment to speak with the World Tree Guardian before proceeding. This will net you a quest and the rare-tier consumable: World Tree Holy Water. You must consume one in order to neutralize the dematerializing effect of Paloxite ore, but the aura effect is very short-lived at a mere 30 seconds, so be quick about harvesting the required resources while it remains active. Note that once dismounted, your Pal itself can also cause the dematerializing effect, so in order to mitigate that issue you will have to feed it World Tree Holy Water as well.

Most Pals that you kill or capture within the World Tree may leave behind World Tree Holy Water drops, which are also needed for farming the similarly dematerializing rare-tier Mythical Wood resource.

An ideal location for farming Paloxite is at -1560,1510, due to its proximity to the Dusty Ravine fast travel point. The three nodes here are spaced closely enough for you to be able to snatch up all of them in a single consumption of World Tree Holy Water. Fortunately, the mined ore pickups do not dematerialize, so you can skip their collection until after completion of your mining run.

An alternate Paloxite farming location is at -1710,1535, near the Remnant Riverside fast travel point. There is a trio of Paloxite nodes right in close proximity.

A third farming location at -1800,1465, just north of the Gilded City Ruins fast travel point, has two trios of Paloxite nodes a short distance from each other, but it will be a race for time as you attempt to mine six nodes while the aura of the World Tree Holy Water steadily runs out.

A more permanent approach involves catching a Pal that has World Tree-exclusive passive skills such as Hermit Sage. With a Pal like that in your active party, Paloxite ore nodes will not despawn, no matter what.

The high-risk Pal Expeditions to the World Tree Subterranean City Ruins can net you Paloxite and a host of Ancient Relics as reward items.

Finally, any rarity tier of Ancient Relics can be broken down with the help of the Ancient Relic Recycler into Paloxite ore, as well as Mythical Wood, and a host of other materials and Schematics, if you can be bothered to set the process for Pals to collect the relics and return them to the base.

That is everything there is to know about farming Soralite and Paloxite fast and effortlessly in Palworld 1.0.

"The 1.0 release of Palworld feels like nothing short of a triumph, with it being able to seamlessly meld several gameplay styles from a vast variety of genres into one cohesive experience."

The biggest thing worth keeping in mind with Palworld is that, despite numerous updates over the years, it never really lost its charm. Its premise on its own was enough to sell several copies at the time, and even now, little has changed in this regard. Washing up on a strange island populated by weird creatures called Pals, you have to figure out your own means of survival. This means getting your hands on some raw materials to craft tools, which can then be used to take down trees and rocks for even more materials

The twist, however, is the fact that Pals can be captured and befriended, and while they’re helpful in fights – a concept will get to a bit later – they can also be put to work throughout your camp. Just about everything you do has a real time cost, after all, and you can’t really set off to explore the world and capture more Pals if you’re stuck at base trying to build more beds or craft more arrows. While automation elements are exactly new to the survival crafting genre, the creature collection aspects of Palworld bring in an entirely new dimension to the process.

Not all Pals are created equal, so you can’t really throw random tasks their way and expect them to get finished. Setting up a berry farm, for example, needs dedicated Pals that can plant seeds, water the field, and eventually harvest the berries. Similarly, even though you have a medicinal table, you’ll still need a Pal that can actually mix materials together in order to get things crafted.

The base-building aspects of Palworld are further expanded by the fact that each one of your Pals will often have distinct needs that need to be fulfilled. Sure, they’ll still slave away at the forge to craft you a thousand ingots, but make them happy, and they’ll do it at a much quicker pace.

Through these systems, Palworld is able to showcase the variety of its strange fauna from early on. You’ll get to meet Cattivas and Lamballs right away, and these Pals will end up forming the backbone of your entire base, at least for the first several hours. Cattiva is definitely a useful Pal to get in the earlier parts of the game, since it can craft and transport items all over your base, making it a helpful support creature next to, for example, your tree-cutting Pupperai.

"Not all Pals are created equal, so you can’t really throw random tasks their way and expect them to get finished."

That’s just one aspect of Palworld’s gameplay, however. It is a creature collecting and battling game, after all, and you’ll also need your own party of Pals that travels alongside you to take on challenging fights. The gameplay isn’t terribly complicated in this regard; get a wild Pal’s health low enough and you can capture them using Pal Spheres, and the lower you can get their health, the higher the likelihood of your Sphere succeeding. Status effects help quite a bit in this regard too. However, you will want to be careful with the kinds that cause damage over time, like poison, since that can end up killing the Pal before you even get a chance to toss your Sphere.

When it actually comes to battles, an entirely new layer of strategy starts getting involved once you are introduced to the concept of elemental weaknesses and strengths. A great early-game example is the boss fight with Zoe and Grizzbolt – a legendary Pal. A majority of the story quests leading up to this encounter revolve around introducing you to Foxparks, getting you to capture one, and then crafting a harness that allows you to use it like a flamethrower. This ability is then put to the test against Zoe and her Grizzbolt, with the latter being quite weak against fire damage.

Elemental weaknesses aren’t the only thing you have to pay attention to when fighting, however. You also have to make sure that you’re appropriately leveled for anything you might encounter. Unfortunately, the game itself doesn’t really do a good enough job of explaining just how vital leveling up can be when it comes to battles, since the numerical advantages you get by raising your stats seem miniscule at best. However, these advantages tend to translate to major differences in how fights will play out. Just two levels could be the difference between you getting one-shot by Grizzbolt, and you being able to take it on without much stress.

Palworld has seen some of its biggest changes since its Early Access release on the story front. While it still doesn’t really hammer you over the head with a core narrative that is constantly pushing you forward, the series of quests you do are a great combination of tutorialzing aspects of gameplay and pushing you to explore more of the island. Thankfully, you’re never really forced to engage with the story until you feel like you’re ready to, and you’ll often want to take breaks to check in on your base anyway.

"Elemental weaknesses aren’t the only thing you have to pay attention to when fighting, however. "

With the core narrative revolving around the World Tree and the various factions trying to control it, there isn’t really a singular antagonist in Palworld. Rather, you’ll often encounter these factions, like the Rayne Syndicate, which tend to act as the main boss fights. With eight towers forming the crux of the story quests in Palworld, you get to take on each one of the factions, which can range from groups of poachers to a corrupt police-like military organization. All-in-all, however, the story was built from the ground-up to be quite ignorable if you just want to focus on the gameplay sandbox.

Palworld also happens to be an excellent-looking game, with sharp art direction that imbues just about every Pal you meet with tons of personality. The environment itself is quite beautiful, and reaching high vantage points was a favorite activity of mine when I wanted to take a break from managing my base and capturing new Pals. Performance has been quite smooth as well, with my PC powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 7800XT GPU, along with 32 GB of RAM, being able to maintain well over 100 FPS at a resolution of 2560×1440.

The 1.0 release of Palworld feels like nothing short of a triumph, with it being able to seamlessly meld several gameplay styles from a vast variety of genres into one cohesive experience. Along with its survival crafting and automation elements being fun to engage with thanks to Pals, the battle systems are also quite well-designed, with a satisfying progression arc that goes from giving you sticks and stones as weapons all the way up to shotguns and assault rifles. Paired with a story that never gets in the way while still offering you some direction, Palworld feels like an easy game to recommend to just about anyone.

This game was reviewed on PC.